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endless video game scenery [13/∞] ↳ dragon age: inquisition (2014) ☛ the hinterlands

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SEASONS OF THEDAS : SPRING 🌺 The Exalted Plains

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DRAGON AGE: INQUISITION 2014 | dev. Bioware

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Iwyn Lavellan and Solas, by @sunshinemage

Thank you, Rory, for this wonderful slice of post-Trespasser happiness. I love the light and the details in the background (the birds!), their tenderness - everything. 

This illustration goes with an old piece of writing, Stars,  where Solas has made Iwyn a magical roof-top garden in Skyhold. 

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From Far Off Shores

STORY TIME. When I very first started playing DA:I, Josephine was the first character I was interested in romancing! I then somehow got misled into believing that she was only romanceable by men, and then Solas turned into a smooth motherfucker on me all of the sudden, and the rest is history.

BUT there is an alternate timeline out there where I never fall into Solavellan hell and instead Ellana is happy with Josephine forever and ever and ever.

ANYWAY, all of that is to say that I was so thrilled when @battlecouples asked me to write about Cashmere Lavellan and Josephine! Thank you for the chance to do this, my friend <3 I enjoyed it so much.

Pairing: Cashmere Lavellan x Josephine Montilyet

Rating: Mature. Heavily implied sexy times, but not quite explicit.

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Cashmere Lavellan would forever remember the first time she met Josephine Montilyet. The chantry in Haven was dimly lit, but the candlelight only made the gold of her dress and the amber of her eyes glow all the more.

“Andaran atishan,” Josephine had said. 

The first words Cashmere had heard spoken in her mother tongue since she left Clan Lavellan weeks before, and they laid on her soul like a balm. They conjured the deep green forests of the Free Marches - the smell of venison roasting on a spit - the voice of her Keeper as she imparted the secrets of magic and Dalish life. Everything Cashmere loved and cherished as First of her clan.

Maybe that made it inevitable that she would fall in love with Josephine.

She’d associated her with all things good from that very first moment. With home.

It helped of course that Josephine was beautiful as the wildflowers that covered the fields Cashmere had known and loved all her life, graceful as the halla moving through those fields, gracious as the sun’s warmth in summer. It helped that Josephine was calm, diplomatic, whatever storms faced them - and that that calm translated to Cashmere herself when she faced the legions of nobles that descended on Skyhold as the Inquisition’s fame grew. Josephine never once doubted her, even though their backgrounds could not have been more different - Josephine, scion of Antiva and Orlais and all its intricate beauties - and Cashmere, more at home among her big family in the woods.

Then again - Josephine was Cashmere’s home now.

Keep reading

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Love Yourself Challenge

I’ve only publicly shared Scions of Lavellan, so I’ll post five of my favorite passages from Chapters 2-6 (and some related screenshots).

Chapter 2 ||  A cooling dew had settled upon the grass, and Deshanna paused to relish the way it soothed her aching feet. The balmy sensation encouraged her to linger, and she partook deeply of the evening air, savoring the scents of woodsmoke, earth, and summer verdure.  Lilting melodies of unseen birds poured shamelessly into the night, heralding their carnal intentions; frogs and insects frequently joined them, each competing for their lifecycles with an arsenal of symphonic crescendos belted amongst the reeds and stars.

Chapter 3 || He turned from the prisoners to face her directly, his frigid eyes shifting in time with the subtle tension of his jaw. To Cassandra it seemed a facsimile of emotion, a cold flash of anger devoid of any incalescence, like sunlight glinting from a sheet of ice.

Chapter 4 || The mountains seemed steeper on that side, youthful teeth gnawing on a capricious sky. Fir trees rose from white powder mounds, painted, it seemed, haphazardly—the exquisite result of a happy accident, extrapolated and reproduced until it blessed the entire canvas and breathed, capable of calming the most chaotic minds. Small, chilly crystals spiraled through the air, twisting and turning and diving, refracting that hateful light into pleasing patterns which brightened her staggered heart. It seemed poignant somehow, the way they joined tempests as dance partners instead of fated objects, lending their beauty and shape to an otherwise senseless force of nature. It was, to her eyes, an exquisite demonstration of pride within the phlegmatic storms of cause and effect, a lesson for taking to heart.

Chapter 5 || For a while it had been tempting to take the lesson she learned from the snow too far, riding out the tempest with the Inquisition and abstaining from decisions and appearances, incorporating herself as an unthinking symbol, an arrow to be aimed at the breach and nothing more.  After all, if she had no conscionable choice but to accept this queasy power, she could at least do so peacefully without all of the doubt and swimming upriver, not to mention the frantic harrowing and re-harrowing of limited information, trying to germinate any sense whatsoever from the razed fields of her mind. Going inert, meanwhile, had sprouted definite appeal, and it took a few days of ruthless carrot-sticking to force open her eyes, to properly look at things. Whether she could actually see them was another matter; she had less control over that, but she would try.

Chapter 6 || A twig snapped and he was gone, leaving the wolves with nothing but an afterimage. He tore the ground, lurching, leaping, leaning into the darkness, nostrils flaring, hooves thudding, eyes glaring in the moonlight, he fled. || The landscape blurred more than usual as he ran, dripped in silvered hues of stormy sea, of foam and clouded skies, of moonlight and dew and halla hides. || He lifted his head, eye following the familiar blur of unruly hair as it rifled in the breeze, wind-tossed and fraying at the seams, wild like a willowbud burst into bloom.

>>> Thank you so much for the tags, @ryanstormarts​, @cartadwarfwithaheartofgold, and @funkypoacher!

The idea is to post 5 works you’ve created that you really love! I’ve been out of tumblr for like 10+ days so I apologize if you’ve already been tagged 😅 I’d love to see your stuff @curiousartemis, @fandomn00blr, @paraparadigm, @kittimau, @sarenkascrawls, @theaiobhan, @thejeeperswife, @inconspicuous-cupcake , @serial-chillr​ and anyone else who wants to share (I want to see yours, too!)

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Local sweetie pie princess gets kicked out of Tower she’s never been out of and thrown into a war after only completing Orientation with local cute himbo who immediately yelled shotgun not in charge. #Just5thBlightThings

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i waited longer that i would like to admit for a quest marker to show up

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Things I did not expect to happen when I woke up this morning: My love for Vegeta being linked to my love for Solas.

I realize I love any character that is very sad, cool and also unintentionally hilarious, but they have to be all 3 of those things at the same time extremely equally

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DRAGON AGE: INQUISITION

⤷ EMERALD GRAVES

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Tea time.

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That place in Emerald Graves where giants roam. You know, that place where you start a fight with one giant which happens to be fighting a behemoth, which happens to draw in even more giants, but then one arrow slips and you've disturbed a pack of brontos and

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🌱 Brea Lavellan 🌱

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Divine Victoria

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soft

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Post 4 Songs that describe your OC

I was tagged by @warden-commander-shepard​ and I finally got off my lazy butt and did it. Thanks so much for the tag! 💚💚

Believer - Imagine Dragons

Don't you tell me what you think that I could be I'm the one at the sail, I'm the master of my sea

Warrior - Beth Crowley

Teach me how to fight I’ll show you how to win

Survivor - 2Wei ft. Beyonce

I’m gonna make it I will survive and keep on surviving

It Is You (I Have Loved)  - Dana Glover

It's no more a mystery, it is finally clear to me You're the home my heart searched for so long And it is you I have loved all along